Extraordinary Measures: Peace in Extraordinary Times

Please join us for our Season Finale featuring four works for violin and piano performed by Network Ensemble musicians Hirono Oka and Charles Abramobic, captured live at Jacobs Music in Center City, Philadelphia. The program begins in a 'Relaxed Mood' with the first movement of Road Movies by John Adams. Next is Peace, by Jessie Montgomery. Written a month into the quarantine in 2020, Ms. Montgomery makes peace from the shock and sadness of the global pandemic. Also on the program is Winter Light by Heidi Jacob. This work was inspired by Ingmar Bergman’s 1962 film of the same title which contains the recurring themes concerning the nature of existence, God’s silence, and the nature of love. The program also includes Distance de Fee by Toru Takemitsu. This work is inspired by the poetry of Shuzo Takiguchi and describes an elusive mythological creature living in “air’s labyrinth ...it lives in the spring breeze / That barely resembled the balance of a small bird.” Please enjoy these outstanding performances of timely music.